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I love reviews and ratings to basically anything, but is there's an website that specialized for that? Of course, AOTY and RYM for Music, Letterboxd for Film, Anilist for Manga and Anime, but I want to rating everything in one place, and I'm able to customize it and have an full control above it. So then, I should do it for myself.

I love writing and reading. I feel like that's my own personal path to loving it. But I don't really get the vibe on Bearblog. Everyone has it's website, in that thing they're ricing, make styles and tinkering, editing, and flex to anyone. But what should I flex, the style and writing of this blog is pretty nothingburger and mediocre. That's why I always thinks that Bearblog is not for me, but it is just great to niche writer. It's been already a year since I signing up here, it is incredible. The community is good, the writing is nonetheless fun to read. But in my mind, I always thinking like I can't write like this.

Being lazy is my style, I can't be any more consistent to do writing, cuz there's no one really support me to do it. I have the hobby, I have the tools, but there's nowhere I could get attentions. This is not like social media where I can get followers and friends, it's pretty much independent yet feels wrapped in somewhere. I'm an person that always get bored, and just do whatever I want that gives me a different feels. If I felt bored with my current distro, I could move on in 3 days. Bearblog didn't makes me comfortable with the freedom of component editing and styling. While I can tinkering the CSS and adding some HTML components to header, it's just simply very limited to me. I want more.

Then, I could also finding an blog generators, they're all works. The one that not really working is me. Vibes is everything, whatever that we vibed, we ended up getting overwhelmed while nothingburger. Bearblog is not perfect, that's my point. In the end, there's nothing that perfect like strong 10/10. Everything have the goods and the bads. There's nothing that going to be my last resort, I'm an flexible person that easily adaptable to anything.

Bearblog is just very good when it comes to the community, which is warm and simply for me, but as blog maker it is not for me. It's not like something is broken, it's never changing and it's stable. Sign up, write and freely change the style. But lack of motivation is just makes me not doing anything. This, my blog stylesheet is very boring, I hate it. I want to change it, but then I feel like there's always something that simpler and better. That's stuck in my head.

The default UI is just something that never really grabbed me, that's why I writing this on AppFlowy. At the first, I just want an blog that packed with the blog editing and styling, but I didn't need that anymore. And I also didn't needed an upvote, it's very pretentious for me.

It's also for my pride, I want to living up my "W3Teal" name like it's my secondary official name. You can search it in Google, ChatGPT, Calude, Gemini, and a lot of another search engines. So, I want to put all my personality, identity as much as I want. All I need is motivation, by using something unique and different, it's makes me feel it. I kinda starts comfortable to merging my music with coding world. It's feels very different for me then.

I makes music reviews in AOTY, and that's when I started to having an whole new personality as melophile. I have 100+ followers, and that's what makes me love to reviewing, I feel like there's will be always someone reads my review. I learn how to creating an wordplay and emotion in my writing. Finding any characteristic and genre in musics is also very fun. Now I writing a lot more than then, when I felt stuck with the boring cycle.

And now, I didn't take a hour to write something like this.

sr.ht/~w3teal/

since so long then*, I really want to switch my Git forge to something. and now, I'm omw migrating my major repos, and leave a lot of nonsense repo I created, it's pretty annoying to dive into. github is very bloated with nonsense AI things, problematic regional issues, scummy repos, and so social-oriented for me. I didn't really get some attentions or some success point, because I didn't really proficient on it. staring at numbers is really manipulating me.

before, I'm trying to use gitlab and the infamous tangled, but same mental issues. I'm an linux geek and pro-minimalist now, I used to scared and confused to use terminal, and didn't even understand how to navigating in sr.ht, now idgaf about it. I’m proud I grew past him, and it's a good news for me.

for now, i would still keep ill.my.id here until I get the alternative works properly. my whole repos will be keep stayed here, I would never leaving GitHub as whole. it's still the biggest key to contributing.

you should configure your ssh key before

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

and add it to your meta account > keys > SSH keys

now, I should change my repo remote (from github to sourcehut).
first, you create new repo at git.sr.ht (you can name it the same as the repo name you want to migrate).

go to your project directory, and

git remote -v
git remote remove origin
git remote add origin git@git.sr.ht:~username/project_name
git remote -v
git push -u origin main

primarily inspired by devin aka @intergrav

Part of "I buy an domain" post.

Lately, I can't be more happy than having an very good domain which is having the good short name, and good price.

It is ill.my.id.

I can use it for my website, projects, and email. And because it's mine, I can do basically everything I want. I starting to learn the system of these free subdomain services.

Maybe I'm a bit controversial for choosing ill which is means to not in good health, but I start to think something that really cool, I can use it like name hacks, for example still, will, bill, kill. And yep, I use it for my email with ImprovMX "me@w.ill.my.id".

ImprovMX is able to using whatever alias you want, with the "*" alias. So, you can email me like:

blahblah@w.ill.my.id
very-good-person@w.ill.my.id
ligmatv@w.ill.my.id
67@w.ill.my.id

In other case, I can flexibly creating domains by using a bit of GitHub Workflows and Secrets (based on, and thanks so much part-of.my.id!).

• w3teal.ill.my.id for my website.
• gmx.ill.my.id for my GMX.css Material Framework project.
• 11b.ill.my.id for my 11ty Beer project.

If you like to join, the docs are in the root domain itself (ill.my.id). I would being very responsible :P ...And if you didn't want too, please star the repo ;)))

I just buy an domain, and I think it's really worth it. I can use it for my projects, websites, and... for giving an free subdomains to anyone else too. That's why instead of choosing my own name to buy (w3teal), I really took an several days to experimenting an short names to use, and what I got is ill. You know, I've have dreaming to create an free subdomain service like is-a.dev which is, I use for my website, and js.org for my project, and I really put my trust on them. I didn't need to take my money at all, I just need to create an quality content and have an patience.

All I know, my.id domains are pretty cheap, in less than an dollar price (in Rumahweb, which is ~0.80), and then $1.6 in the later years. The best part is, you can use any names you want, the price would be the same, doesn't matter the length. That's how I went with ill. That's looks narrow and easy to remembered.

And it's pretty to mixed with other texts, as it's an neutral letters.

w3teal.ill.my.id
robinson.ill.my.id
sushy4x.ill.my.id

So then, I start to learn how to make services like this, first, I need to add the domain to Cloudflare, and change the nameservers. And then, find some subdomain services to learn and fork in, and then, I founding that part-of.my.id/register is very easy to use. I just need to create some secrets like:

• PR_BYPASS_TOKEN: GitHub's PAT (classic) with repo scopes.1
• CF_API_TOKEN: Cloudflare's User API Token2

And...it's simply works! I didn't hesitate to make it into an public repo, and starting to get some people in. For now, the repo documents is still not clear, and I need to make the website and so on... The repo is in github.com/w3teal/ill.my.id. You can see the example in domains/gmx.json, and it's live at gmx.ill.my.id!

Stay tuned! Thanks for Rumahweb, Cloudflare, and part-of.my.id to make this possible.

1. https://github.com/settings/tokens/new↩

2. https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens↩

GNOME just created an brand new distro that specifically created for GNOME. Here's my take on the first experience which looked promising.

Software/hardware to run this OS:

• GNOME Boxes (extra/gnome-boxes in pacman)
  • Running on Garuda Linux (kernel: Linux 6.18.5-zen1-1-zen)
• VM Settings:
  • Memory: 2.9 GiB (from 8.0 GiB hardware)
  • Disk Capacity: 32.2GB

Aspects that will be assessed:

• Core
• Installation
• Usage
• UI

Score: 7.5/10: Decent.
Issues: 1, -2.0, Just enough necessary.

6.0/10
8.0/10

GNOME OS is an atomic OS, you don't have system package manager like apt, dnf, pacman here. Instead, you can use flatpak, with Flathub as the source, which is quite limited.
The OS is updated via GNOME Software.

-2.0

GNOME Store is so heavily buggy and slow. For now, you can't see the progress, and you can't simply Cancel to installing app. Instead, just use the flatpak command.

9.0/10

The boot manager used by default is systemd-boot which is usually faster than common boot manager like grub. There's nothing really groundbreaking, though.

The time booted into the login screen is 12 second.

If you choose to Try GNOME OS and Restart, the boot manager can't find the option.

Score: 6.0/10: Not enough.
Issues: -4.0, Not yet implemented advanced options for install.

Before anything started, we are immediately given a display to manage users straight after the first boot.

After the setup done, you can just simply using the OS as whole. You will get an Tour like in the GNOME as usual, and you letter welcomed to GNOME OS, you can choose to either just Try GNOME OS, or Install now.

• If you choose to Try GNOME OS before, you can Install it then by the app "GNOME OS proto-installer".

• If you choose to Install now, it will directly install without any options like partitioning. And it's pretty fast, even in a virtual machine with decent computer.

Score: 9.0/10: Awesome.
Issues: none

The current ISO size (gnome_os_980336-x86_64.iso) is 2.8 GiB, which is average to today's standard.

Not less, not more.

8.0/10

fastfetch installed via brew.

[w3teal@10 ~]$ fastfetch
        #####            w3teal@10
       #######           ---------
       ##O#O##           OS: GNOME OS Nightly x86_64
       #######           Host: KVM/QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (pc-q35-10.1)
     ###########         Kernel: Linux 6.18.2
    #############        Uptime: 1 hour, 3 mins
   ###############       Packages: 5 (flatpak), 2 (brew)
   ################      Shell: bash 5.3.9
  #################      Display (QEMU Monitor): 1366x681 in 25", 75 Hz
#####################    DE: GNOME 50.alpha
#####################    WM: Mutter (Wayland)
  #################      WM Theme: Adwaita
                         Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
                         Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
                         Font: Adwaita Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                         Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
                         Terminal: GNOME Console 50.alpha
                         Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono (11pt)
                         CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 (8) @ 3.39 GHz
                         GPU: RedHat Virtio 1.0 GPU
                         Memory: 826.38 MiB / 2.72 GiB (30%)
                         Swap: 418.07 MiB / 1.36 GiB (30%)
                         Disk (/): 2.46 GiB / 20.46 GiB (12%) - btrfs
                         Disk (/usr): 2.60 GiB / 2.60 GiB (100%) - erofs [Read-only]
                         Local IP (enp1s0): 10.0.2.15/24
                         Locale: en_US.UTF-8           

10/10: Perfect.

The software installed by default are mostly important, and some are utilities that will be used frequently. No useless software installed.

Apps installed by default:

• Base: Contacts, Weather, Clocks, Maps, Music, Document Scanner, Settings, Video, Camera, Characters, Console
• Dock: Web, Calendar, Files, Software, Text Editor, Calculator
• Utilities: Audio Player, Connections, Document Viewer, Fonts, Image Viewer
• System: Disk Usage Analytics, Disks, Logs, Parental Controls, System Monitor
• Misc: Tour, Help

Utilities installed by default:

• Software: flatpak
• Misc: podman, toolbox, distrobox

Score: 8.0: Pretty good.
Issues: 2, -2.5, Needs to be fixed.

8.5/10
10/10

GNOME is simply the best example that Open Source projects not needed to only pretty in the code, but also in the UI/UX. The padding and rounding are consistent, with a touch of light shadow. The color schemes are limited, but for small customization, it is works.

The font is being Adwaita Sans based on Inter, and Adwaita Code based on JetBrains Mono. It's fit simply with the sleek GNOME UI which is prioritize readability and comfort. The applications are resizable and responsive.

-1.5

Flawed app drawer grid, in smaller screen the icon is smaller, and the text is hardly wrapped, the margin and padding is way too large

And also an weird behavior that the icon is smaller if there's more than a page. On smaller screen, the icon is stays smaller.

9.0/10
10/10

There's nothing really crazy about the takes on this one, the black background without blur is ordinary.

-1.0

The accent color is should be more variative and doesn't look too much alike (e.g. Blue and Teal). And darkened a bit the tone, the "Wired" button is on hovered state, the Red accent is little noticeable in brighter device.

6.5/10

The customization is still needed to take harder, you needed an external apps like GNOME Tweaks and Extension Manager which it's often breaks after some update. It would be an pleasure to have Tweaks settings implemented into the system.

7.6

A very promising first experience as expected.

Thank you for reading! This is my first time rating a distro, so it's really flawed, I will simply re-editing this post too. Thank you! <3

Taking times for backup is such a waste of time. In this post, I want to share you how to create an portable home, and make an Windows-friendly data partition, which is great for you who still dualbooting with Windows.

Yes, Linux is completely supporting NTFS. But if you mount NTFS partition as /home, you will get annoyed by Unix permission, because it's explicitly only working in Linux filesystems like ext4, btrfs, etc. And I almost having an big headache after reinstalling and reuse the NTFS partition as /home, because all my datas on it. My current workaround is:

1. Move my Documents, Music, Pictures, ... to the root of the partition from the username folder.1
2. Mount this NTFS partition as /data
3. After install, I can simply symlinking the folders from /data to ~/.

# Delete the current /home directories
rm -r ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Videos ~/Pictures ~/Music ~/Public ~/Templates

ln -sfn /data/Documents ~/Documents
ln -sfn /data/Downloads ~/Downloads
ln -sfn /data/Videos ~/Videos
ln -sfn /data/Pictures ~/Pictures
ln -sfn /data/Music ~/Music
ln -sfn /data/Public ~/Public
ln -sfn /data/Templates ~/Templates

You wouldn't need to spend so much for the /home partition, because the data is already handled in another NTFS partition, it is just for some configurations, and not taking so much space. In my case, It's just only spend like 1.1GB. So, I recommend you to just giving an 10-20GB, in case you're not using it to store your data.

My current disk worklow is like this2:

NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL   UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
├─sda2      ntfs         Data M2 3816C82C16C7E8C8                      122.2G    61% /data
├─sda3      btrfs                1598c024-f8bc-4547-afaa-2a052b450366   47.5G     2% /home
├─sda4      vfat   FAT32         43B7-34CB                             298.7M     0% /boot/efi
└─sda5      btrfs                b61ddcb1-93b5-44db-b097-e9347fd5d118   90.6G    16% /var/cache
                                                                                     /var/log
                                                                                     /var/tmp
                                                                                     /srv
                                                                                     /root
                                                                                     /

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1. Because I use this partition as /home before↩

2. Ignore the sda1, it's just something like "Microsoft reserved partition". And I spend way too much for /home, lol.↩

The "new year" vibe is not the same, right? All I can do is by making an words, and keep on motivating myself, not by celebrating it and see fireworks. In this year, I want to all I want to do when I want, and the time is right now. Do it all, in the sense of joy. At least, I can see fireworks in this year, and my wish to make my daily photos into an video is done. 2025. is clear for me.

In the January, I do coding as usual, and come to school like usual. THe special thing is, my favorite artist The Weeknd dropping an brand new album "Hurry Up Tomorrow". That's the first time I have my favorite album, I thought it's an 10/10. I also checking Fantano review, and that was an good time, an 8/10. And I even learn hwo to scrobbling then with last.fm.

In February, I changing my name into "W3Teal". Basically, it's means "World Wide Web" + Teal, the accent color I used ever since LIGMATV. It's an good time to refresh my identity, and you know what, yes/LIGMATV is my old YouTube name, but I just doesn't know what an good name, so I just use the old one. I so mcuh adore the W3Teal name, I signing up to, literally all social media ever, and also joining Fosstodon, it's one of my dream, and it's literally just an simple FOSS-themed instance, I can see or write in any topic I want. That's called freedom.

In March, it's all fun. It's the Ramadan month. While wait, I just simply tinkering with my computer, playing a little games, listening to music, and also joining Bearblog! Before that, I searching almost every single blog services, and even made my own <3!12 I didn't realize that it's almost knocking a year. Are we really gone fast, huh? In the Eid Al-Fitr day, my house is being a host, where one family root gathers (This is Indonesian culture!).

I think that it's really funny, that just an couple days in that Ramadan month, I immediately lost interest in blogging, but glad Herman didn't pull me off, lol! And then In April, I almost rarely to touching my computer, really such an boring times. In some time, I playing around the VMs, at that time the distros I use is Linux Mint, and my favorite is ElementaryOS, the design is really good, and the most stable one (As my computer is not so powered).

May is the "phone tinker" month, since my father paying me an Widget App "Everything Widgets", and the developer itself is giving every buyer an really good giveaway, basically you can choose one app from the same publisher, for free. I choosing Crayon Icon Pack, and never going back. But also then, I become an giveway hunter, I searching accross Twitter, and yap about the goods of app, and I win in some times. I become an phone addictor, my time is wasted on phone customizations, and screenshot, screenshot, even though the storage is 32 GB!!! (Glad I god the new one, so I can even crazier!)

June is the best month that filled all my egos, from rankings in the class, also when holiday starts, and an brand new phone, I think it's really worth it for the price! Like, 8GB+256GB?! Yowza, that's really big. But, I start to find my regret paying an Xiaomi phone, the UI is incredibly trash. On default, their navigation bar in third-party launcher to be made as ugly as possible, and you can't even use gesture in my favorite launcher?! But, glad I found the silver lining. The Xiaomi built-in themes is "kinda" big, but deadly BUGGY. You won't found an peace with that default UI, some small tiny not big hidden gem is basically everywhere, e.g. blur in setedit, and finally I found an workaround to make gestures works with third party launcher3. If you an casual user, you didn't notice anything though, you can simply disable ads too, but don't wishing too far.

Twenty One Pilots is my favorite artist, and they're RELEASED an brand new single "The Contract", and even an brand new ALBUM too!! The hype is even crazier, than me with HUT. And what I notice, the comments is mostly saying like it's really looks like an Linkin Park song, and then I found The Contract + What I've Done mashup. I really didn't know that song, but it's really good. And idk, it's makes me an Linkin Park fans.

In July, I starting into my computer again, I do a bit tinkering in my forgettable project "GMX.css" (I didn't know what's really the point, BeerCSS is really good tho?). I definitely listening to music, I listen to The Hunting Party, Living Things, A Thousand Suns, and their newest From Zero. And I realize, that I listen to Linkin Park discography (not whole..will checking their earlier LP), is The Contact. And I'm a bit sad when I see that Fantano didn't like it, I really confused, but like, oh okay. I back into school again, and somehow it's brighter <3

August, the A is for Arch. But the first, I use CachyOS, and then Arch (reinstall it 5 times in a row LOL) this is the first time I starting to have confidence to messing arround with my computer, I starting to memorize the BIOS key "del del del". But I don't have an standalone USB that I can use (I a bit scared to told too). So I tried the KMDTech's tutorial, installing it without USB drive. It's using partition, so it's simpler to me to tinkering my computer, without even single help or helper. And it's helps me even learn a lot, from BIOS layout, Disk Management, and some cmd tools like bcdedit, I feel like an tech guy! <3 (This is not really clear too, you should see this full yap version).

I remember, the last year August (2024), I messing up my computer because I really want to use Windows 11, no USB, no doing what, I just do an weird things with regedit because an random website, and when I restart it, yowza. What's that black screen??? (that's really like that). And for a whole month, I didn't play my computer, until it's taken to a technician, and it's finally installed Windows 11! In the range of a year, I can really laugh to my old self.

In September, I become Linux and Arch "btw" glazer. I tinkering by trying Hyprland, switching DE, and even I wake up faster in the morning, just to see my Arch setup, while NOT doing anything productive. It's, it's incredibly addictive, the customization is really makes you an king, just like Bearblog. But aside of that, I also become an music lover. I start to always seeing an brand new stuffs in AOTY, and become crazy for "scores" number, that's basically the most selling point in AOTY. Breach is dropped, and I really HYPED! For one more time, I can be an hyping fans again, I straight giving it an 100, doesn't matter what. From City Walls which is ........ idk.

In October, I still not too close into programming, but I start to make an blog again, in Bearblog, yap about my "7 Months" distrohopping, pretending that I have million fans awaited for me to write, I think it would have an 100 upvotes, but end-up disappointed by my own expectation, and my make post about it, and..yeah, it's higher bruh. And also, I'm an Tame Impala fans. Sorry, if it's feels so rushed, I really have so much favorite artists since AOTY disease. End Of Summer is mid, what even is Loser, and wow, Dracula is peak. It's released just an couple days (week) before the release, so it's makes my hope high. But I end up disappointed, it's doesn't have any Currents, or even The Slow Rush. I just listening to the opening and it's done. DONE. ANd you know what? I testing to make my own music, with zero budget, just my computer and LMMS. Born "w3oscillator" STUPID name. I rather not to talk about it.

In November, Danny Brown dropping an album that terminally online would love, it's Stardust, and it's, really really great. I know he since I saw his album is the number one in 2016, just search the name. And now he went to having the most sweetest and catchiest song, and the experimentation is still blanded pretty well. You know, all things is doesn't need to taken very seriously, sometimes you also needed the fun! Later, I find that Arch is really too much way freedom, even we need to do another things to makes all things works properly. It's a whole lotta damage, so I just choosing Garuda. Because, why not? It's has all what I need, the disks are properly mounted, the built-in tools is really good designed, and packed up with Virtual things which is become the first selling point for me, because, I also needed Microsoft Office (though I never used it lol).

In December, my times is full of sweet-bittersweet things. I starting to blogging more often again, and also start to coding again. I find my stops, Bearblog for blogging, Garuda for Linux. That's all. All I need is, something that simple and do the job I want. I realize that Arch is not for me, and I would spend too much time to customizing instead of writing if I using another blog service. So, It's all really sweet, just it's really the opposite of June, you can check my specific post in December too. Just keep your plans, I hope that you never have to drop. I find a lot of very good hidden gems, I making my 2026 wishlist, and starting to degoogling my life. Even though, it's just myself. I would survive the better way than my friends. I would keep an promise to myself, just keep on motivate myself.

And that's how I alive in 2025. And now, it's already 2026. I really wish I can do my best for filling all my wishlist4, I want to make myself proud even though others not. So on, I would starting to blogging more often, and also do an Weeknotes which is start from this week. Also, I making an 44 posts in 2025, without 7 months writing. So what if I do blogging every month too?

Let's starts right here. Here we go again. I wish I didn't forgot to click that "Save as draft" so I didn't losing my posts I want to write <3
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1. https://w3teal.bearblog.dev/i-have-rewritten-this-website/↩

2. https://w3teal.bearblog.dev/introducing-weblogjs-my-custom-nodejs-based-ssg/↩

3. https://w3teal.bearblog.dev/making-3rd-party-launcher-works-properly-in-hyperos-2/↩

4. https://w3teal.bearblog.dev/this-year-is-too-short/↩

I looking my blogrolls and found Sylvia blog1, and then I inspired to make an grid-style homepage with the Weeknotes. So I tried to.

The busiest holiday ever, and we back to school on monday, duh.

If my friends do it tomorrow, I can do it today. Because I choose to being happier in tomorrow, not yesterday [days that have passed; can no longer be felt;].

• I resetting my phone, and start using an FOSS apps, degoogling, and make automatic sync with Syncthing. Post coming soon...
• I got an glasses for the first time
• Dental check-up
• 11ty Beer 1.2.0 dropped2
• Heart-rate check
• Change my bearblog theme (WIP)

• Better Smile! - CD & Los Angeles Livestreaming 7.4
• Kleinkunst - Joost 7.5
• I Am Now Where I Was - Ambedo 9.5
• john - MatC 8.5

1. https://sylvia.bearblog.dev/↩

2. https://github.com/w3teal/11ty-beer/releases/tag/v1.2.0↩

The only reason I wasting and slapping Xiaomi for the lack of the easier option of unlocking bootloader, is to makes my third party launchers works properly in my phone (Poco C75). It's basically so basic to having third-party launchers works with gesture! But, glad I found an workaround, no scripts or what. (XDA answer)

Xiaomi is merging the gestures functionality into the system launcher, so it's just doesn't simply fuctionable out of the box with another launcher. My recommendation is Edge Gestures, it's relatively cheap in my country, but you're free to choosing the alternative ones.

And to avoiding the app gones away after closing, you can go to [Security app > Boost speed > Settings icon (on top right) > Lock apps > Find your gesture navigation app, and enable it. Good luck with the random sorting.]. And make it autostarting, by go to [Settings > Apps > Background autostart > Enable your gesture navigation app.]

Basically the place where you can get a lot of settings hidden gem that mostly hidden. As the app launch, it may takes a while until it's done loading. Then, you can search to "Navigation mode", it's in "Settings" category, click it, and click again to "Navigation mode". You can click the "Launch activity" button to check if it's works, and I recommending you to click the "Create shortcut" button, so you can easily re-choosing the option, as after rebooting, the settings disappeared.

You can also easily goes to that option, by using this URL < click it.

You can find the options, the first one is Gesture navigation, the second is 3-button navigation. You can click at the Gesture navigation one, and you can swipe to the home to check if it works.

And that's just how I do it. Now, I can easily using all the launchers like Nova, Niagara, Lawnchair or the icon packs I want, and less Xiaomi tracking.

Here we go. I've been awaken up until 00:00 just to spam clicking the "Apply for unlocking" for 1 minute straight, just for it's saying "cOuLn'T aDd, plEase go to mI coMmUnity tO aPpLy fOr auThor..." LIKE I SWEAR, I HAVE DONE THIS THING LIKE HUNDRED TIMES. I already paid an whole hour internet pack to do it, and it's just straight wasting times and money.

Like, I just should not upgrading to HyperOS 2, so I can unlock bootloader the simpler way (alternative sketchy INSTANT method), instead waiting 30 days, stay up one night, panic at 12:59:59 PM, fail and try again for a week, and wait another 3 days. Like, what it is, Xiaomi? I really think your OS is about customization, but it's end up like trashhh. An sketchy hidden gem, like giving blur to recent views by adding some random value with Setedit, and whatever in the internet is.

So after an whole 3 months, I want to share about my thoughts on my brand new Xiaomi phone, and this is why you should never paying for that thing. It's just incredibly frustating.

No customization, privacy, and freedom at all. Anything is feels so time wasting and so buggy in HyperOS, and the more upgraded the OS, the more your phone get locked. Want to give this app access? Wait 30 seconds, and don't forget to check the checkbox. Want to find the apps where you want to enable that setting? Haha, good job with the random sorting.

Ads in their all default apps, broken navigation bar with custom launcher. I really feels like scammed, bruh. Since then, I traumatized to buy an Xiaomi phone again. Especially, I buy this phone with my own money, so this is really dissapointing. I have paid a lot of icon packs, and widgets, to make them unusable in my brand new phone!

Like, I have my old Samsung phone, and every time I see it, with the custom launcher, icon packs, I was like it's just feels even more modern than my brand new one. Even with it's very lacking in processor, RAM, and storage, but with that UI, I feel like I don't want to go. But now, I was like just want an simple phone as usual, I can use custom launchers, I don't need a big storage, I don't playing games. I just want something like that.

Please Xiaomi, I didn't care even one percent about how my phone will be not "secured" after the bootloader unlocked. Okay, you have the app, the service, to unlocking it, but why it's should be really really specific? If I just can unlock it in 00:00:00 straight, then say it. And are we really really need to use our mobile data instead WiFi, for literally JUST ADD THE ACCOUNT? It's very unusual and useless. But please, what even the benefits with using such an specific time? WHY DON'T JUST LET ME APPLYING THE TIMES WHEN I WANT? Like, giving an review notes, maybe?? And then, I can peacefully sleeping, while just waiting my account approved, why don't things just like that??

What whould be in future? Sold my kidney to unlocking my bootloader? Sending all my education raports as PDF, minimum 10, and wait another 1 year? You're ain't an monopoly company, Xiaomi. Don't you understand? Oh yeah, I'm too lazy to contact them, so I just create this post like they're enver heard.

TLDR; I would never ever interested in Xiaomi things again. buggy, lack of customization, and too much rely on luck. Oh god, whatever the spec you give, the cheapest price you give, just never.

Ah, I really needed to sleep. Time to powering off this pho